OUR WORDS - You can't be kinda free- you can be fully free or enslaved. MLK told the nation that the African Americans haven't been freed yet. Also that Lincoln took the step towards freedom- and now they need to take the next step.
OUR WORDS - Can't cash a check unless you have cash. They cash he is talking about is the freedom. America has treated African Americans as a bad check. Excerpt 3 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3 We have also come ... Now is the time.
OUR WORDS - It is time to change the ways that america has treated us. We can't change it later cause nothing will get better. Things have to happen now! Excerpt 4 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4 But there is something ... soul force.
OUR WORDS - We can't do this with violence, we have to do this peacefully. Excerpt 5 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5 The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back. OUR WORDS - We have to keep going forward- we have to work with the whites. Our future affects the whites future too.
And this will be the day ... we are free at last! OUR WORDS - This day will be the day that we will change. African Americans will finally be free!
AFTER If we didn't get to it in class, watch 16th Street to see what happened right after the March.After the march the church on 16th street was bombed. Four little girls in the basement at the time were killed by the Ku Klux Klans bombs.
KING
Read the essay from **TIME 100 - Martin Luther King** . As you do, respond to the following questions Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?
If it wasn't for Martin Luther King, we would have never been able to be with africans americans or whites. We would still be seperated based on color of skin.
Was King "the right man at the right time"?
King was the right man at the right time. He is one of those people that come along very 100 of years. He is specail and his talents are what helped our nation become a place. He is the father of civil rights.
Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?
I personally think King would be proud. The fact that he made a difference in our country over one phase would make him think, " wow I made a difference." He would be proud of how far our nation has come.
Excerpt 1 - I Have a Dream - Excerpt 1
Five score years ago, ... a shameful condition.
OUR WORDS - You can't be kinda free- you can be fully free or enslaved. MLK told the nation that the African Americans haven't been freed yet. Also that Lincoln took the step towards freedom- and now they need to take the next step.
Excerpt 2 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2
In a sense ... the security of justice.
OUR WORDS - Can't cash a check unless you have cash. They cash he is talking about is the freedom. America has treated African Americans as a bad check.
Excerpt 3 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3
We have also come ... Now is the time.
OUR WORDS - It is time to change the ways that america has treated us. We can't change it later cause nothing will get better. Things have to happen now!
Excerpt 4 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4
But there is something ... soul force.
OUR WORDS - We can't do this with violence, we have to do this peacefully.
Excerpt 5 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5
The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.
OUR WORDS - We have to keep going forward- we have to work with the whites. Our future affects the whites future too.
Excerpt 6 - I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6
There are those ... like a mighty stream."
OUR WORDS - We will not be staified until segegration is stopped.
Excerpt 7 - I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7
And so even though ... I have a dream today!
OUR WORDS - Everyone will be able to sit down at the table of brotherhood.
Excerpt 8 - I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8
And this will be the day ... we are free at last!
OUR WORDS - This day will be the day that we will change. African Americans will finally be free!
AFTER
If we didn't get to it in class, watch 16th Street to see what happened right after the March.After the march the church on 16th street was bombed. Four little girls in the basement at the time were killed by the Ku Klux Klans bombs.
KING
Read the essay from **TIME 100 - Martin Luther King** . As you do, respond to the following questions
Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?
If it wasn't for Martin Luther King, we would have never been able to be with africans americans or whites. We would still be seperated based on color of skin.
Was King "the right man at the right time"?
King was the right man at the right time. He is one of those people that come along very 100 of years. He is specail and his talents are what helped our nation become a place. He is the father of civil rights.
Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?
I personally think King would be proud. The fact that he made a difference in our country over one phase would make him think, " wow I made a difference." He would be proud of how far our nation has come.